Sharpe, Daniel, 1806-1856

found: Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Second series, volume VII, part 4, 1856:page 206 (Daniel Sharpe, Esq., F.R.S., Pres. G.S.; contribution: Description of Palæozoic mollusca from South Africa)

found: OCLC, May 3, 2010(hdg.: Sharpe, Daniel, 1806-1856 ; usage: Daniel Sharpe)

found: Wikipedia, WWW, searched May 3, 2010(Daniel Sharpe, FRS, April 6, 1806 - May 31, 1856, a U.S.-born English geologist)

found: Wikipedia, January 31, 2025(Daniel Sharpe, English geologist, born at Nottingham Place, Marylebone, Middlesex; studied mountainous formations in Great Britain and continental Europe, and arrived at important conclusions about cleavage in rocks; orphaned before his birthday, raised by a half-sister; at age 16 he entered the counting house of a Portuguese merchant in London; at age 25, after a year in Portugal, he joined his elder brother as a partner in a Portuguese mercantile business; did research in the 1830s on the geological structure of the Lisbon area; studied the Silurian rocks of the Lake District (1842-1844), and the structure of the Alps (1854-1855); elected to the Royal Society in 1850, and as president of the Geological Society of London in 1856; died in London on May 31, 1856 from a riding accident)